Japanese Maple earrings Swirl These vines are annual climbers

These vines are annual climbers with slender coiling stems

Their spirit taught me to evaluate my actions without judgment and take responsibility for them

Cottonwood Trees are associated with honoring your body

tan and brown leaf liter beneath the canopies of these shredding bark trunks

While living in San Miguel de Allende

Japanese Maple earrings Swirl These vines are annual climbersAs a child growing up in the Midwest I took solace in a neighbors yard under the canopy of a rather anomalous tree with beautiful lacy purplish red leaves. Later, I learned it was a Japanese Maple which explained its bark scars that looked like slanted eyes kindly watching over me. I spent seasons getting to know this tree. Each spring tiny pointed leaves appeared and within days I could almost watch them emerge into lushness. The tree would send out